ORANGE, Calif. — Chapman baseball took the series over Pomona-Pitzer on Senior Day with a 3-2, 11-inning win in game one and a loss in the final game, 7-3.
Game 1 – W, 3-2 Final - 11 Innings
An Austin Dudas single with the bases loaded in the 11th walked it off for the Panthers, clinching the series victory.Â
After a one-out Kai Osaka double, Chapman had chances to win it in the 10th, but it was a single, sac bunt, error, and intentional walk in the 11th that set up the walk-off opportunity.
Chapman got the scoring started with an AJ Anzai single in the second. They added another run on an Osaka sac fly in the fourth before going stagnant through the middle and late innings.Â
Max Banks got his first start on the mound since he started against MIT on March 8. He was dominant, throwing three-scoreless with six strikeouts. Colin Godfrey was solid in relief, going four-plus strong, allowing one earned run, a homer in the eighth.
Hank Tobias and Henry Chabot picked up where the staff left off, blanking the Sagehens from the eighth on.
Game 2 - L, 7-3
The Sagehens bats came out blazing in the first, notching four hits and three runs in the frame, and the Panthers couldn't catch up as the game wore on.
Graham Stogner started and ended up giving up six earned, but he was great from the second through the fifth, and it was two big innings in the first and sixth that got him. He left with the bases loaded in the sixth inning, and a two-out triple extended the Sagehen lead to an insurmountable 7-1.
With the split, Chapman moved to 21-16 on the season and has a pivotal series against Cal Lutheran next weekend with the season on the line.